Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Saint Augustine

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Saint Augustine

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Tori Amos

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Valerie Cruz

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.

Umberto Eco

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

Richard Dawkins

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Richard Dawkins

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ourselves and ultimately produce another robot child.

Richard Dawkins

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

Robin Wasserman

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

Robinson Jeffers

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Robin Williams

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.

Robin Williams

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world,

Robin Williams

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Robert Wilson Lynd

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Ringer

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Robert Musil

I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.

Robert Musil

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Robert E. Lee

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Robert E. Lee

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Robert Collier

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Robert Collier

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - - but create!

Robert Collier

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

Robert Collier

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collier

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Robert Collier

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Robert Collier

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Rob Thomas

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

Richard O'Brien

Life's too short to be working with divas.

Richard Paul Evans

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is not yours to take.

Richard P. Feynman

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.